SSD vs Hard drive?

[Hotshot]

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I was checking on Hard drive as my laptop is 5400rm HD which is very slow as like waiting for Father Xmas arrived as if he ever arrived! LOL

7200rm HD would be good speed but nowhere near fast as SSD I think...

I thought I could buy SSD Hard drive as they are super fast but they are very expensive.

Is possible to have SSD HD inside the laptop of Acer6935?

 

[hellfire]

If your notebook has a 2.5" hard-disc, you can easily exchange it with any SSD.
If you need 1.8" it's probably tricky to find a cheap one.
I'm using a small (60GB) SSD in my desktop to store OS and tools - it's amazingly fast.
To store large media-files I'm using a normal hard-disc because it's much cheaper.

[Hotshot]

Mine is gaming laptop ( Acer 6935 ) as I hoping it can change easily from my crappy slow hard drive to SSD Hard drive would be very nice because it would boot my window 7 in 10 seconds instead of waiting for while( I will go put kettle on and have cup of tea lol)

[va!n]

I thought sometimes to buy a SDD for my tower (for the system and some tools) too. But in the past (esp last time) i heared about a lot of problems with some SDD. For example, if power supply turned off while windows is running, you could damage your full system and some other rumours. If SDD are working safe i would like to buy one

[Moroboshisan]

I'm using a small (60GB) SSD in my desktop to store OS and tools - it's amazingly fast.

i read about SSD drives are far from being affidable... fast degrading performances over the long term use... how long did you were using this setup so far? weeks? months? ...?

[Jim]

Same setup as Hellfire.  60Gb SSD for W7 OS, Program Files, and current working set of source code.  Everything else on large hard disks.  I am pretty happy with the performance considering this PC is now about 4 years old (Core 2Duo 2.4GHz).

Jim

[hellfire]

i heared about a lot of problems with some SDD.
For example, if power supply turned off while windows is running

There are a lot of rumours about SSDs, there always is when people don't fully understand a new technology.
HDDs don't like sudden power failure either, so don't just pull the plug
I guess that's only a problem for enterprise solutions and they probably use an ups anyway.
And I remember numerous lines of harddiscs which just refused to work from one day to another, so there's probably no other option than backup

how long did you were using this setup so far? weeks? months?

I've got mine for a few months now and I'm using my PC mainly for development - which means I'm trying to keep it clean and simple.
I could imagine that wear-leveling is less efficient on an almost full disc - again that wasn't much different with mechanical drives.